In conjunction with the exhibition “Home Front: Daily Life in the Civil War North,” the Newberry and the Terra Foundation for American Art are co-sponsoring a symposium to present new scholarship on the Civil War. The exhibition and symposium are made possible through support from the Terra Foundation for American Art.

The symposium begins with a lecture by Sarah Burns on Thursday evening, October 17, and will continue on Friday, October 18, with two panels of scholars, separated by a second lecture by Bruce Levine. The symposium will be held in Ruggles Hall at the Newberry Library, and all sessions are open to the public.

Thursday, October 17, 2013
Lecture: 6-7 pm

Sarah Burns
Professor of Art History Emeritus, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Women, the Flag, and the Wounds of War”

Bruce Levine
J. G. Randall Distinguished Professor of History and Professor of African American Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign
“Reshaped by the ‘Logic of Events’: Changing Views of Slavery and Race in the Union and Confederacy”

Ross Barrett
Assistant Professor and David G. Frey Fellow of American Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Another Round for the “Exempt Brigade”: Edmund Hawthorn’s Interior of George Hayward’s Porter House (1863) and the Picturing of Home‐Front Masculinity”

Heidi Knoblauch
Ph.D. Candidate, History of Science and Medicine Department, Yale University
“Portraits of Wounded Bodies: Photographic Conventions and the Circulation of Images in the Nineteenth Century”

Commentator: Joshua Brown, Executive Director, American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning; Professor of History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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